1 online resource (viii, 196 pages) : color illustrations
Contents
Prelims; 1- What is Low Vision?; 2- Magnitude of Low Vision; 3- Optics of Low Vision Devices; 4- The Functional Assessment; 5- The Examination and Evaluation; 6- Optical Devices; 7- Nonoptical Devices; 8- Other Assistive Devices; 9- Selecting the Devices for Partially-Sighted; 10- Types of Visual Field Defects- Their Effects and Intervention; 11- Visual Aids and How to Use Them?; 12- Eye Disorders and Low Vision; 13- A Low Vision Child; 14- Vision Rehabilitation; 15- Establishing Low Vision Services; 16- Understanding People Who are Visually Impaired; 17- Disability Network in India
Summary
This book has been designed to offer expert information to the eye care practitioners so that they can guide and provide basic low vision care to each patient in their small step up. A user-friendly book helps to encourage the optometrists and ophthalmologists to recognize the importance of low vision devices enabling the partially-seeing patient to utilize their remaining vision to its full potential. Contains information to understand the meaning of visual acuity in relation to normal vision low vision and blindness; to identify people with low vision as distinct from those who have normal v
